James Propp

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

James Propp is a scholar working on Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Mathematical Physics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, James Propp has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, 22 papers in Mathematical Physics and 18 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in James Propp's work include Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics (20 papers), Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (13 papers) and Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (10 papers). James Propp is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics (20 papers), Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (13 papers) and Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (10 papers). James Propp collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Australia. James Propp's co-authors include Michael Larsen, Richard Kenyon, David B. Wilson, Greg Kuperberg, Henry Cohn, Noam D. Elkies, Daniel H. Ullman, Boris Hasselblatt, David M. Bressoud and David Aldous and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, American Mathematical Monthly and Theoretical Computer Science.

In The Last Decade

James Propp

59 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Exact sampling with coupled Markov chains and application... 1996 2026 2006 2016 1996 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Exact sampling with coupled Markov chains and applications to statistical mechanics
    1996 592 citations James Propp et al. Random Structures and Algorithms profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Propp United States 17 766 597 502 425 376 66 1.8k
Richard Arratia United States 26 652 0.9× 821 1.4× 427 0.9× 992 2.3× 178 0.5× 52 2.5k
Prasad Tetali United States 25 678 0.9× 556 0.9× 391 0.8× 384 0.9× 408 1.1× 104 2.3k
Greg Kuperberg United States 20 208 0.3× 478 0.8× 525 1.0× 320 0.8× 841 2.2× 66 1.6k
Van Vu United States 27 1.2k 1.6× 946 1.6× 742 1.5× 387 0.9× 557 1.5× 73 2.6k
Alice Guionnet France 26 1.7k 2.2× 1.3k 2.1× 593 1.2× 292 0.7× 277 0.7× 79 2.3k
James Allen Fill United States 23 713 0.9× 732 1.2× 171 0.3× 519 1.2× 195 0.5× 76 1.7k
Mireille Bousquet‐Mélou France 21 170 0.2× 533 0.9× 993 2.0× 245 0.6× 340 0.9× 79 1.5k
Jinho Baik United States 22 2.1k 2.7× 1.4k 2.3× 786 1.6× 577 1.4× 260 0.7× 44 2.8k
A. M. Vershik Russia 28 484 0.6× 1.5k 2.6× 601 1.2× 283 0.7× 962 2.6× 172 2.7k
Hosam M. Mahmoud United States 20 345 0.5× 928 1.6× 197 0.4× 680 1.6× 146 0.4× 131 1.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Propp

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Propp

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of James Propp. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of James Propp based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with James Propp. James Propp is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Propp, James, et al.. (2023). A Pentagonal Number Theorem for Tribone Tilings. The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. 30(3). 1 indexed citations
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Propp, James, et al.. (2023). Tilings of benzels via the abacus bijection. 3(2).
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Propp, James, et al.. (2023). Homomesy via toggleability statistics. arXiv (Cornell University). 3(2). 1 indexed citations
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Propp, James. (2021). The Square Root of Pi. Math Horizons. 28(3). 14–17.
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Propp, James, et al.. (2020). Brussels sprouts, noncrossing trees, and parking functions. 2021(1). Article #S2R1–Article #S2R1. 1 indexed citations
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Propp, James. (2020). The Combinatorics of Frieze Patterns and Markoff Numbers. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 20. 1 indexed citations
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Hasselblatt, Boris & James Propp. (2006). Monomial maps and algebraic entropy. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Propp, James. (2003). Generalized domino-shuffling. Theoretical Computer Science. 303(2-3). 267–301. 56 indexed citations
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Cohn, Henry, Robin Pemantle, & James Propp. (2002). Generating a Random Sink-free Orientation in Quadratic Time. The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. 9(1). 13 indexed citations
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Cohn, Henry, Richard Kenyon, & James Propp. (2000). A variational principle for domino tilings. Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 14(2). 297–346. 160 indexed citations
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Propp, James. (2000). Three-player impartial games. Theoretical Computer Science. 233(1-2). 263–278. 26 indexed citations
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Bressoud, David M. & James Propp. (1999). How the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture Was Solved. Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 46(6). 637–646. 31 indexed citations
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Propp, James & Richard P. Stanley. (1999). Domino Tilings with Barriers. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 87(2). 347–356. 7 indexed citations
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Aldous, David & James Propp. (1998). Microsurveys in discrete probability : DIMACS workshop, June 2-6, 1997. American Mathematical Society eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Aldous, David & James Propp. (1998). Microsurveys in Discrete Probability. 19 indexed citations
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Propp, James. (1997). A Pedestrian Approach to a Method of Conway, or, A Tale of Two Cities. Mathematics Magazine. 70(5). 327–327. 9 indexed citations
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Propp, James. (1997). Generating Random Elements of Finite Distributive Lattices. The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. 4(2). 15 indexed citations
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Propp, James, et al.. (1996). Exact sampling with coupled Markov chains and applications to statistical mechanics. Random Structures and Algorithms. 9(1-2). 223–252. 592 indexed citations breakdown →
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Loeb, Daniel E., et al.. (1995). Richman games. arXiv (Cornell University). 10 indexed citations
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Propp, James, et al.. (1995). The projective fundamental group of a ℤ2-shift. Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems. 15(6). 1091–1118. 5 indexed citations

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